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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disappearance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mysterious
▪ Her heart quickened - perhaps they were discussing Puddephat's mysterious disappearance?
▪ The mysterious disappearance of Mr. Stavanger alone is something that needs to be cleared up.
▪ Read in studio A search has been launched after a couples mysterious disappearance.
▪ Read in studio Police say they're baffled by the mysterious disappearance of a twenty nine year old farmer.
virtual
▪ This problem was to plague the new party until its virtual disappearance from the scene after the 1987 general election.
▪ The virtual disappearance of the moon glow then lights up the stars in the darkened sky.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He notified police of the girl's disappearance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the juxtaposition of the two buildings speaks volumes about the rapid disappearance of regional, vernacular, even weirdo architecture.
▪ Effluent discharges are often made inconspicuous by buildings or the frequent disappearance of the watercourse into culverts.
▪ Her heart quickened - perhaps they were discussing Puddephat's mysterious disappearance?
▪ His disappearance could therefore mean only one thing: that some terrible harm had come to him.
▪ Neither Sister Cooney nor the doctors made any comment, but its disappearance was noted.
▪ She'd already decided to invent a tummy bug to explain any awkward disappearances she might be forced to make.
▪ Today they tried to reconstruct what they think might have been his movements before the disappearance.
▪ We are in touch with you because your name cropped up in reports concerning the disappearance of the murdered man's wife.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disappearance

Disappearance \Dis`ap*pear"ance\, n. The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disappearance

1712; see disappear + -ance.

Wiktionary
disappearance

n. The action of disappearing or vanishing.

WordNet
disappearance
  1. n. the act of leaving secretly or without explanation [syn: disappearing] [ant: appearance]

  2. the event of passing out of sight [ant: appearance]

  3. gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: fade]

Wikipedia
Disappearance (novel)

Disappearance is a youngadult novel written by Jude Watson, the sequel to '' Premonitions.

Disappearance

Disappearance may refer to:

  • Forced disappearance, when an organization forces a person to vanish from public view
  • Disappearance (2015 film)
  • Disappearances (film), a 2006 film
  • Disappearance (2002 film), a 2002 American television film
  • The Disappearance, a 1977 film
  • The Disappearance (TV series), a French TV series, originally titled Disparue
  • Disappearance (novel), a novel by Jude Watson
  • The Disappearance, a fantasy novel by Philip Wylie
  • "Disappearance", an episode of the television series Dynasty
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events No.3: The Wide Window or, Disappearance!, a special edition of the novel The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
Disappearance (2002 film)

Disappearance is a 2002 television film that first aired on TBS and later was released on DVD.

Disappearance (upcoming film)

Disappearance is an upcoming Swedish horror/thriller short film directed by both Ludvig & Markus Gür which is set to be released in 2015. The film was made with a budget of 10,000 SEK (around 2000 USD) and was recorded for most part in Östra Real. The film is about William, a teen film maker, who becomes obsessed with a case about three teenagers found dead at a local high school. He decides to make a documentary about the case with some friends. When William and his friends enter the school, strange things starts happening.

The film is not shot from the perspective of a camera even though some of the scenes have small shots from it. A release date still hasn't been confirmed. The spoken language in the movie is English although most people in the movie (including Markus & Ludvig Gür) are all from Sweden.

Usage examples of "disappearance".

Finally, according to the Achaemenid Milieu office, autumn 542 happened to be the first season of relative tranquility since the disappearance.

Webster, an admitted pedophile, had adamantly denied ever having seen either of the boys, and all throughout the trial, had sworn his innocence, had sworn that someone else was responsible for their disappearance.

Almost simultaneously with the disappearance of the swarm over New York, all other Africans had flown to water - the sea, lakes, rivers, even reservoirs - and drowned there.

They told of the disappearance of Miss La Rue in the night of September 11th, and of the departure of Bowen Tyler in search of her, accompanied only by his Airedale, Nobs.

Another important effect of Iranian rule was the disappearance of the Mesopotamian languages and the widespread use of Aramaic, the official language of the empire.

For they have found that the tribes to the north of the Arunta regularly give their dead a second burial, that a change in the state of the ghosts is believed to coincide with the second burial, and apparently also, though this is not so definitely stated, that the time for the second burial is determined by the disappearance of the flesh from the bones.

Then, too, there was the upsetting of the larder, the disappearance of certain staples, and the jarringly comical heap of tin cans pried open in the most unlikely ways and at the most unlikely places.

In the meantime some of the skulkers whose flight I have referred to began to return, chapfallen, but rejoicing in the disappearance of the danger.

Australasian regions and its fantastic islands, the leading feature inaugurated in this important wood block is a marked departure from the Behaimean and Schonerean configurations, one strange phase of this new departure being the total disappearance of the Austral-Asian continental protuberance which occupied in previous charts the site of Australia.

FBI sources admit they now believe the documents, which are considered critical to the investigation, may have been in the possession of Chicagoan columnist Mike Lanagan at the time of his disappearance following the firebombing of his home last May first.

Meanwhile, the FBI has widened its search for critical evidence believed to have been in possession of Chicagoan columnist Mike Lanagan at the time of his disappearance last May first.

Slowly, laboriously, she tipped the chiffonnier backwards and forwards--once, twice, thrice--satisfied, yet strangely troubled in her mind, for she now felt sure that the bag of which the disappearance had so surprised her was there, safely locked away by its owner.

Valis might have planted in addition to what had been on the cadavers, Billy remained a potential suspect in the disappearances that would soon become known to the police: Lanny, Ralph Cottle, the redheaded young woman.

Even if anatomically modern humans were found to have lived a million years ago, 4 million years after the Late Miocene disappearance of Dryopithecus, that would be enough to throw out the current accounts of the origin of humankind.

Not only was the disappearance of Brittany Little not a dunker or a gimme, it was going to attract press attention once the details began to shake loose.